No relative would take all ten children, so Johnny split them up between aunts, cousins, and grandparents. Henrietta ended up with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks. They would live in a small cabin that once served as a slave quarter, which they called “home-house.” Henrietta lived in “home-house” with her grandfather and cousin David Lacks, whom the family called Day. Henrietta, Day, and a few cousins would work on their grandfather’s farm from sunrise to sunset. To think that her childhood had already been disrupted significantly at the age of 14, she got pregnant with her first child, Lawrence, by no other than David “Day” Lacks. They had their second child, Elise, four years later, in 1939, and married in 1941. The following year, during WW2, Henrietta and Day moved their children to Baltimore, Maryland. After reading the first few chapters of the book, put into perspective what Henrietta’s life was like before developing cancer. Like most people, there was no way of knowing that something like this was going to happen to her; she seemed to be a healthy child despite what her living circumstances may have